On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > raghu: >> The Right >> seems to hate [Obama] even more than the Left, yet the more they hate him >> the more desperately he wants to be be their friend. > > of course, at the GOP's top, a lot of this hatred is strategic: they > act _as if_ they hate Obama in order to get him to wimp out once > again.
I am tempted to say that at least some of the Right's hatred of Obama is simply racism. On the other hand, Krugman and others remember Clinton facing something very similar to this in the 90's.. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
